The rebirth of politics in Russia / Michael Urban with Vyacheslav Igrunov and Sergei Mitrokhin.
Blending first hand accounts of grassroots politics with an original theory of social relations under communism, this 1997 book seeks to explain one of the seminal events of this century: the rebirth of politics in Russia amid the collapse of the USSR. The authors trace the process from the pre-poli...
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1997.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Pre-political context. Politics and communism: figure and ground. Regime and opposition in the pre-political period
- pt. II. Perestroika and the return of political life. Perestroika: renewal, transition or transformation? Glasnost, mass media and the emergence of political society. Informal movement: politics on the margins of the Soviet order. National elections and mass politics
- pt. III. Politics and revolution. Politics of opposition. 1990 elections and the politics of national liberation. Parties in movement: the articulation of Russian political society at the close of the Soviet period. Restoration and revolution
- pt. IV. Ground up: politics in post-communist Russia.